What's Past Is Prologue

I'm tired of the comparisons to Oroville, Oroville is not Trek, amusing as it is. It's not even similar to TNG, DS9 and Voyager. It's a parallel universe that's not being discussed in Trek at the moment. When Discovery runs into the Oroville or characters from it, let me know. Meanwhile, let Discovery be about Discovery.

"It's harder for an Uncivilized Man to pretend to be Civilized, than it is for a Civilized man to pretend to be uncivilized." - Mr. Spock, "Mirror Mirror"

But when that uncivilized man is Lorca, we find that what is difficult is not impossible, Mirror Lorca finds himself in the Prime 'Verse, and was able to take command of one of two experimental Discovery class ships, and even manipulate Stametz to find ways back to the Mirror 'Verse. When Admiral Cornwell started seeing through it, she was talked into taking over Sarek's dangerous mission, which put her out of the picture. She was Mirror Lorca's biggest threat.

We can go back and watch the previous episodes, and see that something was off with Lorca from the start. It all seemed so logical, but everything Mirror Lorca did, foreshadowed what was to come.

Georgiou, a merciless Emperor facing deposition, although not like Prime Georgiou, is still a competent commander knows her ship, is integrated into it. As vicious as she is, she still has feelings for Michael, which may or may not make her Manipulate-able.

Mirror Stametz work was a perversion of the Spore drive, and is destroying the whole network. Is there a solution to this, which will open a door back to Prime Verse, that won't blow up discovery?

For this to happen, Michael has to work on Mirror Lorca and Georgiou, a three-way conspiracy. And Michael makes a tacit commitment to keep Mirror Georgiou alive.

The Character who wins Most Improved award is Saru, who has become a more than adequate Captain. And this also pushes actor and stuntee Doug Jones into a starring role. I'm very impressed, from Abe Sapien to Saru. Doug has been a multitude of weirdly designed angels and daemons in several Guillermo del Toro films. My favorite being the Angel who saves Hellboy in "Hellboy 2 The Golden Army." I have to admit, although I like the actor and the character, I had issues when he took command and was trying to "score" his performance by comparing to Captains April, Archer and Pike.

Getting back to the Prime Verse is only half the problem, it all depends on when they get back. With only a couple of episodes left, can we really say that the Mirror 'Verse is done with us yet?

This has been the longest incursion into the Mirror Verse of all Trek, and the elongated storyline was quite a welcome thing.

Did I said this was the best episode of ST-D? and that it was way more satisfying than TLJ movie - cause it was, hope ST-D gets renewed for 12 seasons.

I certainly don't care for what haters think, there are too many morons in this planet, and putting just one stars is more then obvious how childish all of you are. Go watch the old episodes of ST, you're not obliged to what Discovery become more interesting every new episode and feel bad that others are enjoying.

It's becoming embarrassing have to read your explanation of "why" it's not like the old tv shows - it's simple, people grow up, and the world we live is not a wonderland, and many teenagers prefer to watch more realist stuff then the comedic ones of the old ST. By the way, the franchise is very weak outside US, but ST-D is making it bigger - cause the same fanboys-trekkies didn't went to theaters to watch the ST movies, that is why ST-D got a greenlight for production, and I loved that. The old fanboys are killing the franchise.

Did I said this was the best episode of ST-D? and that it was way more satisfying than TLJ movie - cause it was, hope ST-D gets renewed for 12 seasons.

This episode is more Burnham focused but the rest of the primary cast all get a shout. Probably the least "classic Trek" episode of the series so far. But that's not a bad thing per se. I say least classic Trek because of the amount of action, fighting and violence. The closest previous episodes I can think of are ones where Klingons are invading DS9. However those episodes where pretty straight forward plot wise where as this episode of DSC has lots of twists and turns. I was on the edge of my seat for most of this one. I have to give it to the production team. Not only is this is turning into great Star Trek but also a fantastic Sci Fi series overall. Something that we've been missing as of late. I didn't rate Blade Runner 2047 and the less said about the Last Jedi the better. It kinda appears that the writers have attempted to turn this first season into a 13 hour movie basically. Similar in structure to West World. Which I think a lot of us suspected from the outset. Building up to an explosive final act. If the last couple of episodes of the season are as good as this, I can't wait! I still hope they manage to sort the look of the Klingons out though. Would also like to see a couple more stand alone episodes in the 2nd series. Where individual members of the crew get a chance to shine.

When Star Trek is good, it can be very good. Unfortunately with all the spin offs after ST: The Next Generation, there was a creative vacuum that was clearly on display in Voyager and Enterprise.

Discovery the series has so far not been consistent but this installment was astonishingly good. It even nearly threw in a tribute to Doctor Who with the 'reversing the polarity' quip!

Lorca reveals his true colours and it is not that different from Jason Isaacs other famous character Lucius Malfoy, a believer in racial purity which Empress Georgiou has diluted. Lorca has no time for the namby-pamby Federation.

Burnham feels compelled to help Georgiou and both need to work together to stop Lorca while the crew of the Discovery have to figure out how best to get back to their own universe.

When you have a martial arts actress such as Michelle Yeoh you might as well use her for some kick ass action and that is exactly what Georgiou does here.

A good episode, but nothing special. Some minor decision making made little sense, so does "the science". I also frequently feel like they'd recycle too many elements from previous shows and movies. "Riding on top of an explosion" is getting old, for example.

And about the show in general: I'm a bit disappointed by "the hounding" from setting to setting, within few episodes. So far Discovery's priority certainly isn't to deepen the plot, rather than jumping to the next climax.